Büroberufe sind und waren mit technischen Neuerungen konfrontiert. Viele Aufgaben in diesen Berufen gelten als "programmierbar" und werden deshalb als ersetzbar angesehen. Dennoch gibt es kaum Forschung dazu oder zum Umgang Bürobeschäftigter mit dem technischen Wandel. Diese Lücke schließt...

Um das Ausmaß und die Auswirkungen der pandemiebedingten Änderungen und Belastungen auf Hochschulbeschäftigte zu untersuchen, haben wir im Juni 2021 eine Umfrage an 13 deutschsprachigen Hochschulen in Deutschland und Österreich durchgeführt. Befragt wurden hierbei wissenschaftliche sowie...

Das Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB) hat den seit 2014 neu angebotenen dreijährigen Ausbildungsberuf „Kaufmann/Kauffrau für Büromanagement“ evaluiert. Die Evaluation liefert insbesondere Erkenntnisse darüber, ob die zunächst bis Ende Juli 2020 zur Erprobung eingeführte...

Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon earnings for men and women. While university data cover a relatively homogeneous group of workers, the...

Telephone operation, one of the most common jobs for young American women in the early 1900s, provided hundreds of thousands of female workers a pathway into the labor force. Between 1920 and 1940, AT&T adopted mechanical switching technology in more than half of the U.S. telephone network,...

INTRODUCTION -- Feminist OR Secretary? -- At the Intersection of Sex Equality and Economic Justice -- The Promise and Perils of Human Resource Management -- Beyond Affirmative Action's Reach -- The Decline of the Office Wife and the Rise of the "Automated Harem" -- Could Pink-Collar Workers...

Herausforderungen für Städte und Immobilienmarktakteure -- Strategiekonzeption (Mitigation/Adaption) -- Fallbeispiele für Stadtentwicklungen nach früheren Pandemien -- Implikationen für Akteure und Nutzungen in Städten (Wohnen, Arbeiten, Versorgen).-Implikationen für die Investition und...

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

Die Bürobeschäftigung in Deutschland ist weiter im Wachstumsmodus. Insgesamt lag der Zuwachs gegenüber dem Vorquartal bei 2,2 Prozent. Neben den großen Bürometropolen ragt vor allem Leipzig mit einem Wachstum von 6 Prozent heraus.

Profile: Pearl Bernstein: A Woman in New York Politics -- Precedents -- Part 1: At the Margins -- Negotiating Partisanship -- Sustaining Feminist Progressivism -- Part 2: Moving toward the Center -- Scandal in the Courts -- Fallout -- The Women of the Administration -- The Election of 1937 and...

Part I. Grasping the situation -- 1. The legacy of industrial management -- 2. Two types of efficiency -- 3. Changing the system -- Part II. Designing the flow -- 4. Understanding flow -- 5. Busy does not mean productive -- 6. Design principle 1: continuity -- 7. An accounting story -- 8. Design...

From a corporate social responsibility perspective, there are many reasons to promote teleconference use as an alternative to business travel. The present study examines psychosocial and organizational factors relevant to teleconference use. We tested an extended Theory of Planned Behavior model...

"To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their employment"--

The late nineteenth‐ and early twentieth‐century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to...

The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

The supply of skilled female labour increased significantly at the beginning of the twentieth century as women assumed positions in the newly created clerical workforce. Evidence suggests that despite this increase in labour supply, the wage paid to female clerical workers increased over the...

The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

Pearlman, Schmidt, and Hunter (1980) published a seminal paper on the validity of various measures for predicting performance in clerical jobs. They concluded that for both job and training performance criteria, 10 types of tests (e.g., perceptual speed, clerical aptitude, verbal ability)...

This paper seeks to determine how competition from charter schools affects a broad range of employees including instructors, administrators, and support personnel. Three empirical models are estimated utilizing a panel data from Michigan: a fixed effect model, a fixed effect model with lagged...

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent...

Using a unique data source on marital status, partnership and sexual orientation of academics and administrators at British universities, we estimate the impact of personal relationships upon earnings for men and women. While university data cover a relatively homogeneous group of workers, the...